Sermon Tone Analysis

*Secular:*

* * *Product of our parents

*  Lisa will say… like your Dad

*  Bethany and I

*  Josh and I

*  Luke and I

*  Rebekah and I

*  Acorn doesn’t fall far from the tree

*  Lisa and see obvious signs… the are a product consistent with the seed stock… the vine

*Biblical:*

John 15:1 "I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser.

2 "Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, He prunes it so that it may bear more fruit.

3 "You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. 4 "Abide in Me, and I in you.

As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me. 5 "I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing.

6 "If anyone does not abide in Me, he is thrown away as a branch and dries up; and they gather them, and cast them into the fire and they are burned.

7 "If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.

8 "My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit, and so prove to be My disciples.

9 "Just as the Father has loved Me, I have also loved you; abide in My love. 10 "If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love; just as I have kept My Father's commandments and abide in His love.

11 "These things I have spoken to you so that My joy may be in you, and that your joy may be made full.

12 "This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you.

13 "Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends.

14 "You are My friends if you do what I command you.

15 "No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you.

16 "You did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain, so that whatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you.

17 "This I command you, that you love one another.

18 "If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before it hated you.

19 "If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, because of this the world hates you.

20 "Remember the word that I said to you, 'A slave is not greater than his master.'

If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you; if they kept My word, they will keep yours also.

21 "But all these things they will do to you for My name's sake, because they do not know the One who sent Me. 22 "If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin.

23 "He who hates Me hates My Father also.

24 "If I had not done among them the works which no one else did, they would not have sin; but now they have both seen and hated Me and My Father as well.

25 "But they have done this to fulfill the word that is written in their Law, 'THEY HATED ME WITHOUT A CAUSE.' 26 "When the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, that is the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify about Me, 27 and you will testify also, because you have been with Me from the beginning.

*Personal: *

* * *Attached to the wrong vine

* Unsuitable work environment

* Untrustworthy friends

* Expectation that you will be something else…

* Josh… at hockey…

* Dressing room issue…

* He got painted with same brush…

*Bridge: *

* When they grow apples… splice in specific variety

* When the grow grapes… splice in a specific variety

* Talk about good illustrations for his situation…

* Olives

* Almonds

* Grapes

* Agrarian

* *Good crop?

*

* *Good stock… outcome becomes certain *

* * In Christ our outcome is certain…*

* *

*Body:*

*Fruit Bearing*

John 15:1 "I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser.

2 "Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, He prunes it so that it may bear more fruit.

3 "You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. 4 "Abide in Me, and I in you.

As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me. 5 "I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing.

6 "If anyone does not abide in Me, he is thrown away as a branch and dries up; and they gather them, and cast them into the fire and they are burned.

7 "If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.

8 "My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit, and so prove to be My disciples.

* Lives, Almonds, Grapes… story makes sense

* *The Symbols *

* */The Son /*is the true vine… v.15:1a, 5a

* Grapes good stock

* Wild… wrong vine… bad product

* /The Father /is the gardener 15:1b* *

* Careful… attentive… loving… knowing….

* Responsible for the outcome

* * */The Believer / is the branch 15:5b

* From good stock comes good branches to bear good fruit

* From bad stock weak branches... bad grapes

* * The Steps*

* * *Submitting to the Pruning of the Father 15:2-3

* Father is going to grow us…

* Nasty vine cut back… cast off… waste

* Cut back… improve crop….

Improve quality

* Hebrews 12:6 FOR THOSE WHOM THE LORD LOVES HE DISCIPLINES, AND HE SCOURGES EVERY SON WHOM HE RECEIVES."

* What are his tools?

* His Word

* His Spirit

* His People…

* His Elders

* The Caring Body

* * *We must abide in the Son 15:4.

5c-6

* Branches do not survive without nourishment… being connected to the plant… to the roots…

* Branches are not the plant….

We are not the source… we are not God… we are a branch

* 1 John 2:28 Now, little children, abide in Him, so that when He appears, we may have confidence and not shrink away from Him in shame at His coming.

* Be attached… not blown away… not burnt up…

* * The Success*

* * *It results in bountiful fruit 15:7-8a

* Colossians 1:9 For this reason also, since the day we heard of it, we have not ceased to pray for you and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, 10 so that you will walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, to please Him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God;

* Branches attached to a good vine… attended by a good vinedresser… a good gardener… will be bountiful!!

* The opposite is also true!

* Deuteronomy 29:18 so that there will not be among you a man or woman, or family or tribe, whose heart turns away today from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of those nations; that there will not be among you a root bearing poisonous fruit and wormwood.

* No good branch

* No good fruit